> In message <199506121205.OAA01450@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de>, Andrew Wheadon writes:
> You don't *need* an adaptec controller to remap blocks.  It is actually
> the drive that does the honours, all you need is the appropriate software
> to tell the drive to do so...

The only software I know of that does it is the builtin-software
on the Adaptec. I was asking for other software for Unix (or for DOS
with included drivers.) Sometime ago somebody posted a fix to the
kernel plus utility which did exactly this "rmap" but it didn't come
with enough info about the parameters to apply it. The optimum would
be a utility the scans the disk and remaps (interactively as option.)
just like the Adaptec BIOS.

Does any appropriate software exist ? If not I under Peter is writing some.

Cheerio
btw some people still seem to disagree that this problem ever arrises...

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